Clearly there is, or you would not be wasting your precious time reading these articles on the "dangers" of eating eggs, and promoting the dubious claims that they are making.

Dubious?With respect, you are not qualified to make that assessment.

Bhikkhu Pesala wrote:According to Dr Google the "evidence" is contrary to your opinion. You choose to ignore those articles that don't support your current view, and to believe the articles that do. The main problem is egos, not eggs.

In your opinion.

Bhikkhu Pesala wrote:Human beings have been eating eggs, fish, poultry, and meat for tens of thousands of years. There is no evidence that a moderate amount of any of these products causes serious health issues. Excess in almost anything can cause health problems. You can die from drinking too much water.

On the contrary, there is.

“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.” - Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Learn this from the waters:in mountain clefts and chasms,loud gush the streamlets,but great rivers flow silently.- Sutta Nipata 3.725

There is no "bad cholesterol", only destroyed and oxidized LDL, a carrier of cholesterol. When LDL receptors are damaged by inflammation and toxins, the LDL cannot be absorbed, so it cycles through the blood until it become oxidized (which is quickened when LDL contains polyunsaturated fats) which turns into a foam which coats arteries with plaque.

Eating eggs, cholesterol or saturated fat does not cause plaque or heart disease. Inflammation and toxins cause LDL to be oxidized which creates plaque.

The ratio of HDL to LDL is a good biomarker, not overall raised cholesterol levels. Cholesterol does not equal HDL or LDL. HDL and LDL are lipoproteins which are carriers of cholesterol from the liver.

Eggs are like multivitamins. Dietary cholesterol is almost irrelevant and healthy when it is absorbed.

"No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley."

The internet is full of 'research' on all types of food and they often contradict one another. Of course it depends on context. One might say eggs are healthy because they contain proteins, but if you already get enough proteins from other sources that of course is very relative. So I think it's best to use common sense and listen to your body. I think 1 egg a day may be a bit much for me personally, so overall I keep it lower than that and am thinking of discarding them all together. Proteins are in many plant based products as well.

I personally have to watch my egg intake because of a fatty liver. All food intake requires prior research and experimentation to find out how YOUR body reacts. If you have 500 cholesterol, put the eggs and burgers down. Same deal if an egg makes you feel bad in some way. While researching my diet recently, I found an article detailing why vegetables are dangerous for our health. As plants evolve over time, they produce naturally insecticides to destroy and/or defend against pests. In essence, consuming plants of any kind poisons the human body in small ways. The catch is to consume a variety of foods to obtain each source's nourishment. All we can do is experiment until we find a diet that works both for our bodies and minds.

I'd say its more important to know how your own body responds to a particular thing through listening and testing rather than what any particular research says.

"No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley."

Roland wrote:I'd say its more important to know how your own body responds to a particular thing through listening and testing rather than what any particular research says.

some people consuming all kind of foods high on cholesterol and their test results are excellent and others are being very careful and their test results are high, it better to check on individual responds I would agree

Roland wrote:I'd say its more important to know how your own body responds to a particular thing through listening and testing rather than what any particular research says.

some people consuming all kind of foods high on cholesterol and their test results are excellent and others are being very careful and their test results are high, it better to check on individual responds I would agree

Cholesterol is never a problem until it becomes a problem. Bodies change and it maybe too late before you find out, that is the case with 35% of the people i am looking after at this time.

Roland wrote:I'd say its more important to know how your own body responds to a particular thing through listening and testing rather than what any particular research says.

some people consuming all kind of foods high on cholesterol and their test results are excellent and others are being very careful and their test results are high, it better to check on individual responds I would agree

Cholesterol is never a problem until it becomes a problem. Bodies change and it maybe too late before you find out, that is the case with 35% of the people i am looking after at this time.

mettapaul

It's again more about dukkha, anatta, and anicca than whether cholesterol is good or bad.

Theravada Buddhism mentioned about abandoning evil and practising good, the issue about egg yolks, my cousin avoid them in the past, then again it's a nutritional issue, when you are e.g. pregnant the dietary needs change. What used to be bad may actually be more nourishing instead.

The Buddha had a named concern towards practitioners about four issues namely karma, food, weather, and mind. Within these four pillars He was trying to advise us that each and every one of them had an impact whether towards a monastic or simply a householder. A dietrician may be skilled at calculating cholesterol levels, a meteorlogist may be skilled at estimating weather forecasts, these two are considered visible and observable physical phenomenon. As per karma and mind, that's more challenging than how to cook an egg yolk right.

I'm not going to listen to a vegan doctor's advice about eggs. Obviously, very biased. I'd rather listen to someone with no skin in the game. Egg yolks are packed with nutrients...and it's real food vs. processed crap. Stuffing donuts down your pie hole is what kills people.

OP, I use egg whites and vegan protien powders. I can't tolerate milk.

BTW free range chickens aren't nearly as "free" as you think. It's more of a sales gimmick.

With 6 grams of protein and less than 100 calories, an egg is the perfect food.

Go ahead and scramble those eggs, yolk and all—there’s new evidence that it may lower your risk of heart disease.

Two new studies from the University of Connecticut recently presented at the Experimental Biology conference found that eating eggs actually improved cholesterol levels and reduced disease-producing inflammation in the body.

In one study, researchers asked participants following a carbohydrate-restricted diet to eat three whole eggs per day while another group ate an equivalent amount of egg substitute. After 12 weeks, the whole egg group experienced increases in levels of “good” HDL cholesterol, from 50 mg/dL to 59 mg/dL. (Doctors say men should aim for HDL levels over 40 mg/dL.) Their LDL (“bad”) cholesterol levels didn’t change at all. (For more delicious, belly-filling foods, click here!)